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ABSTRACT and outlet stores found in malls and could also be as small
as kiosks beside the streets. A perfect example will be
"Because of the way people work these days -- many out of AGNO Street located at the back entrance of De La Salle
their homes, many with different schedules -- the University – Manila. Since the capital requirement in
traditional 9-to-5 day has morphed into a 12-noon-to- putting up a fast food store today is relatively low, small,
midnight day," (Cebrzynsk,2008). That's also true for individual fast food chains slowly multiply and are
college students, dietitians say. Many attend class during becoming more common throughout the world. One way to
the day, work an evening job, and pick up fast food when check how much fast food chains affect our modern way of
they clock out. They're looking for something fast and living is to ask children of our time on what their favorite
inexpensive and not thinking whether the food is still restaurants are. In the Philippines, if the answer is not
nutritious or not ( Jamieson-Petonic, 2008). Eating at night Jollibee, it’s McDonalds or KFC or other fast food chains
may not be something bad that could lead to obesity, but spread across the country.
eating at fastfood chains may lead to many health problems
or issues. Street vendors also contribute a lot to the fast growing
This paper aims to discuss the current issues with regard to business. With just a cart, a table and a grill, they could
fastfood chains. These include health, sanitary, professional already set up their mini fast food store. Just observe the
and some legal issues. famous AGNO Street alone, you got all fast food you’ll ever
wish for. They sell hamburgers, hotdogs, easy packed
meals, toron, sandwiches, siomai, taho, sweet corn, ice
1. Introduction cream, fruits mainly mangoes and buko, isaw, barbeque,
instant noodles, quail eggs, name it and they have it. These
When James Dean said, "Live fast, die young, leave a street vendors provide a colorful and varying range of
beautiful corpse" in the 1950s, Americans were much options designed to quickly captivate passers-by and attract
thinner and fast food was a new invention. Today as much attention as possible.
Americans are simply too chubby to live as fast as the lean
1950s idol. Instead they eat fast food, die younger than they Other outlets of fast food stores are dominantly found
should and leave increasingly obese corpses. beside gas stations. Applying it to the Philippine setting
alone, we could notice that all gasoline station ether it’s as
Along with smoking, substance abuse and inactivity, fast big as the one in South super highway, or just as small as
food presents one of the greatest public-interest health those found in small narrow street will always have their
threats to Americans today. Fast food is almost universally convenience stores beside it. There, they sell easy-packed
dangerous and should probably carry a warning from the foods such as hotdogs, doughnuts, and even ready-baked
surgeon general. It contains meat-based carcinogens, is pastas just so gas customers could not only tune up their
high in total calories and saturated fat and is a principal cars but also their tummies.
source of trans fat.
As the examples above showed, the Philippines is
So, what are fast foods anyway? In lay man’s term, it is the bombarded with fast food stores everywhere. In a busy
food given that could be prepared in an instant often served street like Makati, you wouldn’t pass through a street
packed for take outs and deliveries. Most fast food stores without seeing a 7-11 or a Mini-Stop store. People will eat
often have drive-through services allowing the customers to more than five times a week and often, one or more of those
order and pick up food without the need to step out of their five times is at a fast food restaurant.
cars. These fast food chains could be as big as restaurants
in part to public pressure, proudly announced that its fries
would be cooked in "cholesterol-free 100 per cent vegetable
oil." While this was true, it was not the whole truth. The
whole truth is that McDonalds uses partially hydrogenated
2. Health Issues vegetable oil. In other words, it uses trans fats, which are at
least as bad for your blood cholesterol as the saturated fats
Probably one of the most eye-catching issues of today. An they replaced, and probably worse.
example is McDonalds, where a documentary was made on
the health risks that could be acquired by an average In some ways this is another kind of high-fat
person. fraud. You go into a fast food outlet and choose the fries
The documentary was entitled “SuperSize Me”, which was instead of the burger, thinking you’re avoiding saturated
a documentary film of an average American person eating fat. But it turns out that you’re no better off. Temperatures
at McDonald’s for 30 days with Spurlock as the sample. used for deep-frying liberate legions of deadly free radicals
The result was a 10lbs gain, depression, lethargy and from fats. Even more frightening is the effect for multiple
headaches in just five days. Also, Spurlock had heart frying episodes. Fats that are used again and again for
palpitations in the 21st day. After the event of 30 days, frying oxidize at frighteningly high rates.
Spurlock was told that his liver had irreversible damages
that could cause a heart attack even if he would lose all the The portions served by fast food chains and other
weight gained during the experiment. restaurants are far larger than the recommended portion
size for most foods. Food costs for restaurants are relatively
low, compared to the costs of rent and labor, so it makes
sense for them to offer larger portions that make their
customers feel like they are getting a bang for the buck.
As American eat out more and more frequently, they
become accustomed to those oversized portion, and think
that such portions are normal. The high caloric content of
these large servings leads to weight gain for regular fast
food customers, and obesity can lead to many dangerous
health problems.
Fast food chains do not alert their customers to the
Statistics of heart diseases from obesity hazardously high calorie and fat content of the food they
offer. They deserve some of the blame for the epidemic of
Also many young children are influence by the fast obesity, and lawsuits brought by victims of their toxic food
food chains through their very effective marketing would force these companies to take some responsibility for
strategies which is the kid’s value meal through this their dangerous products. [2]
children would have eating habits which would last for the
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2. Are food workers not allowed to smoke and eat foods in the √ √
preparation areas?
Section 21: Toilet and Washing Facilities
1. Are these rooms open directly into spaces where food is √ √
prepared, stored, and served?